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| President's Day Sunset From Grandview Park |
I was watching the 5 o'clock news yesterday when they showed the sunset view from Pier 39, surprised to see a bit of color and some cloud definition. I'd have figured the sky would be more of a uniform slate gray (like it is this morning). Anyway, it was enough to get me off my butt and out to Grandview Park, where a cold wind was blowing.
I've been thinking about replacing my 2014 Mazda 3 with a Subaru Outback, but I'm waiting for the hybrid version to come out. In the meantime I feel like I'm missing out on the snow in Yosemite Valley this week, and I'm disappointed that I'll miss another great bloom in the mountains around Carrizo Plain this spring. Hopefully I'll have many more chances in the future, but you never know when one of those multi-year droughts is going to put the kibosh on such things.
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| Squalls Moving Across The Ocean |
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| Last Light |
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| Earlier in the day I'd strolled over to the park after the rain let up. There was lots of wild cucumber twining itself all over the place. |
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| Dark-eyed Junco |
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| In addition to the footsteps-of-spring, a little bit of San Francisco wallflower was also in bloom at the top of the hill. |
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| I took cover from a rain squall at the base of a big cypress when this white-crowned sparrow paused nearby carrying a twig for its nest. |
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| This was Yosemite Valley this morning before it went into whiteout mode. |
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